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Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, 6/E
Charles F. LevinthalHofstra University

ISBN-10: 0205665705
ISBN-13:  9780205665709

Publisher:  Pearson
Copyright:  2010
Format:  Paper; 480 pp
Published:  02/06/2009

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For undergraduate courses on Drugs and Behavior.

 

This text examines the impact of drug-taking behavior on our society and our daily lives.  The use and abuse of a wide range of licit and illicit drugs are discussed from historical, biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives.

 

In today's world, drugs and their use present a social paradox, combining the potential for good and for bad. As a society and as individuals, we can be the beneficiaries of drugs or their victims. Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, Sixth Edition features a comprehensive review of psychoactive drugs, and is notable for the attention it gives to two aspects of drug-taking behavior that have been underreported in other texts: steroid abuse and inhalant abuse.


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Provide students with a deeper understanding what impacts of drug use.

  • Extensive coverage of important theoretical perspectives on drug abuse:
    • The Family Systems Model (Chs. 1, 17, and 18).
    • Public Health Model (Chs. 1, 2, and 18).
    • Harm Reduction Model (Ch. 2).
    • Positions opposing the Disease Model of alcoholism and other forms of drug abuse (Ch. 10).
  • Emphasis on the Biopsychosocial Model throughout the book, conceptualizes drug-taking behavior as a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors. 
  •  By the Numbers… features at the beginning of each chapter provide pithy and provocative statistics relating to drug use and abuse such as the percentage of people reporting drug abuse as a cause of family trouble (24%), estimated number of illicit drug users worldwide (185 million), or the number of outdoor marijuana plants in the U.S. seized by the DEA in 2003 (1.1 million).

Show how drug use impacts an individual’s health.

  • Health Line features provide helpful information regarding specific aspects of drug-taking behavior and new medical applications.
  • Health Alert features provide emergency information about drug abuse situations or recognition signs of serious drug misuse or abuse.

Provide context about how drugs have impacted our history and our lives.

  • Drugs…in Focus tell fascinating stories about the role of drugs in our history and present-day culture.
  • Portraits take students into the lives of individuals who have either influenced thinking about drugs in our society or been impacted by drug use or abuse. The most comprehensive review of psychoactive drugs of any undergraduate textbook on the market.
  • Point-Counterpoint Debate features, located at the end of each of the five sections of the book, examine the principal pro and con arguments on important drug-related controversies in a simulated-debate format.
  • Pedagogical Features
  • Quick Concept Checks are self-gradable questions interspersed throughout the chapters, help assess student understanding of text material.  


New To This Edition

  • Totally revised and updated coverage of drug-related statistical information from the 2008 Monitoring the Future survey of the University of Michigan, 2006 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) survey, and the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 
  • New or revised Drugs…in Focus features: Endorphins in our Lives: A Psychosocial Perspective (Chapter 3), Paco: A New Cheap Form of Cocaine Floods Argentine Slums and Beyond (Chapter 4), Smoking in Movies and Movie Ratings (Chapter 11), Is There Any Truth Regarding “Truth Serum”? (Chapter 15), and Penalties for Crack versus Penalties for Cocaine: New Developments in Criminal Prosecution (Chapter 17).
  • New or revised Health Line features: Defining Drugs: Olive Oil, Curry Powder, and a Little Grapefruit (Chapter 1), Drug Craving and the Insula of the Brain (Chapter 3), and Defining Drugs, Part 2: Nutmeg as a Spice and a Hallucinogen (Chapter 6), African Americans, Smoking, and Mentholated Cigarettes (Chapter 11).
  • New Health Alert feature: Sustained-Release Buprenorphine: Ushering in a New Era (Chapter 5)
  • New or revised Portraits: Nicholas and the Dextromethorphan High (Chapter 1), Robert Downey Jr. --- Cleaning Up his Life after Cocaine (Chapter 4), and Scott Pecor and the Scotchgard High (Chapter 13).
  • A “Where to go for assistance” web link included in all Drug Alert features.
  • New Point/Counterpoint feature: Should Cognitive Performance-Enhancing Drugs Be Used by Healthy People? at the end of Part 2.
  • Expanded “Critical Thinking Questions for Further Discussion” at the end of all Point/Counterpoint features.
  • New and expanded sections on major contemporary issues of public concern:  Drug-taking behavior among children of parents who had been involved in drug use at an earlier time (Chapter 1), current trends in prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drug abuse (Chapter 1), harm reduction as a national drug-abuse policy (Chapter 2), genetic contributions to an understanding of individual differences in drug-taking behavior (Chapter 3), current status of anti-craving drugs for cocaine abuse treatment (Chapter 4), prescription pain medication misuse and abuse (Chapter 5), current availability of high potency marijuana grown in remote areas of Canada (Chapter 7), differential rates of law enforcement for marijuana possession among African American and Latino men (Chapter 7), steroid abuse, human growth hormone abuse, and stimulant medication misuse in major league baseball (Chapter 8), potential health benefits from a natural substance in red wine (Chapter 9), chronic alcohol abuse and alcoholism in the workplace (Chapter 10), extensive tobacco use among nations of the world and the global health crisis related to tobacco-related disease (Chapter 11), placebo effects of caffeine as a performance-enhancing drug (Chapter 12),  soft drink consumption and childhood obesity (Chapter 12), conservatism in recent FDA-approvals of new drugs (Chapter 14), new recommendations for use of cough-suppressant products with children under the age of 14 (Chapter 14), specialized drug courts in the criminal justice system (Chapter 17), the influence of popular music and the Internet on drug-taking behavior of young people (Chapter 18), current trend toward alcohol-free college fraternity houses (Chapter 18).

 


Table of Contents

BRIEF CONTENTS 

Preface  

 

PART ONE:  Drugs in Society/Drugs in Our Lives  

 

CHAPTER 1: Drugs and Behavior Today

 

CHAPTER  2: Drug-Taking Behavior: The Personal and Social Concerns

 

CHAPTER 3:  How Drugs Work in the Body and on the Mind  

 

 

PART TWO: Legally Restricted Drugs in Our Society  

 

CHAPTER 4:  The Major Stimulants: Cocaine and Amphetamines  

 

CHAPTER 5:   Narcotics: Opium, Heroin, and Synthetic Opiates  

 

CHAPTER 6:  LSD and Other Hallucinogens  

 

CHAPTER 7: Marijuana  

 

CHAPTER 8: Performance-Enhancing Drugs and Drug Testing  in Sports  

 

 

PART THREE:  Legal Drugs in Our Society  

 

CHAPTER 9: Alcohol: Social Beverage/Social Drug  

 

CHAPTER 10: Chronic Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism  

 

CHAPTER  11: Nicotine and Tobacco  Use

 

CHAPTER 12:  Caffeine  

 

CHAPTER  13: Glues, Solvents, and Other Inhalants  

 

 

PART FOUR:  Medicinal Drugs  

 

CHAPTER 14 Prescription Drugs, Over-the-Counter Drugs, and Dietary Supplements  

 

CHAPTER 15: Sedative-Hypnotics and Antianxiety Drugs  

 

CHAPTER 16: Drugs for Treating Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders  

 

 

PART FIVE: Treatment, Prevention, and Education 

 

CHAPTER  17: Intervention and Treatment: Strategies for Change  

 

CHAPTER 18: Prevention and Education: Schools, Community, and Family  

 


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